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The Difference Between
Unlinked and Missing Clips
While it may seem pedantic, there’s an important difference between clips that are unlinked,
and clips that are missing when it comes to the relationship between clips in the Media Pool
and clips in a Timeline. First off, both of these “offline” clip states look different in the timeline,
but these differences aren’t just cosmetic.
A missing clip in the Timeline (left) compared to an unlinked clip in the Timeline (right)
An unlinked clip is a clip that exists in the Media Pool, but has lost the link to its corresponding
media file on disk. However, unlinked clips still contain metadata, they still have a relationship to
instances of that clip that have been edited into timelines in your project, and they can be easily
relinked to media files with matching file names and timecode using the Relink command
(described later), or reconformed to previously or newly imported clips in specific bins of the
Media Pool with the Reconform From Bins command (also described later).
Missing clips do not exist in the Media Pool at all, although clips flagged as missing can still
appear in the timelines of your project. However, since missing timeline clips have no
corresponding source clips in the Media Pool, the clip in the timeline has no metadata that can
be seen in the Metadata Editor, and it will have lost any remote grades that are associated with
that source clip (for more information about remote grades, see Chapter 123,
“Grade Management.” You can fix missing clips in a timeline in one of two ways:
 If the “Automatically conform missing clips added to Media Pool” setting is enabled
in the General Options panel of the Project Settings, then simply reimport the
corresponding source clips into the Media Pool and they will be automatically
conformed to missing clips with matching timecode and file names in the timeline
(this only happens at the time of import, it doesn’t work for matching clips that are
already in the Media Pool). Please note, this setting must be disabled if you use
collaborativeworkflow.
 If the “Automatically conform missing clips added to Media Pool” setting is disabled
in the General Options panel of the Project Settings, then you’ll have to import the
missing clips and either manually reconform them one at a time to the missing timeline
clips using the Conform Lock with Media Pool Clip command, or use the Reconform
From Bin(s) or Import Additional Clips With Loose/Tight Filename Match commands to
try reconforming them all at once.
However you choose to reconform the missing clips, you won’t get the original remote grades
or manually edited metadata back unless you had previously exported the appropriate
metadata and grades, in which case you can reimport and apply these in separate steps.
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